Part of Vertex project. In this fusion of acrylic, pastel, I've captured the fluid dance between reality and reflection. The semi-abstract figures, draped in symbolic strokes, represent the dualities we face—the seen and unseen, the light and dark. This fine art piece is a visual poem of the soul's reflection, inviting for contemplation and dilaogue. The aesthetics of symmetry in nature, and symmetry of reflection, represents symmetry in force /leading/ lines. In other words, the search for symmetry could be a creative act if one realizes the apparent framework of the known answer: it is part of the conceptual aesthetics in which rational assessment is a recurring stage after the inclusion of intuition and pure imagination. In the composition, the logic of the reflection has been changed /with a reference outside the physical phenomenon/, in the direction of the idea of subjective reflection in the eyes of others. The reflections /and not the figures themselves/ have an enhanced spatial materiality, separating themselves in bas-relief from the pictorial surface and reinforcing the sculptural logics of my pictorial auto-concept. They convey the underlying metaphoric symbolism as ‘specific objects’*, dialectically relativized. They "mislead" us that it is simply a physical reflection. But such are the lies of the artist - they tell the truth instead of hiding it... --------- * ‘Specific Objects’ /1965/ is an essay by the American critic and minimalist artist Donald Judd /1928-1994/. --------- The technique is acrylic and pastel on paper in the aesthetics of the "Sediment Process" on which I have been working for several years. It is a concept for visual language, based on mathematical logic and linear perspectives. The expressive units are multiple sections. It focuses on the artistic gesture and the idea of the aesthetics of slow motion – an ethical opportunity to observe the deviation phase and more generally... for understanding and tolerance beyond the ego.

Elitsa Baramova - Baramó

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Education 1995-2001 – National Art Academy, Sofia/ BG, master's degree in arts, Illustration and graphic design 1989-1994 – National High School of Applied Arts "St. Luke", Textile class, Sofia/ BG since 2007 – Membership: Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA), section Painting Solo exhibitions 2023 – Rakursi gallery, Sofia/ BG (“Vertex” project, painting) 2022 – [a] cube contemporary gallery, Sofia/ BG (“Guardian Angels” project, painting, “Red Room” - installation) 2021 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, „Parallel Realities“/ “Passing Landscapes” projects, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2020 – Bulgarian Cultural Institute, “Passing and Remaining Landscapes” project, Budapest, Hungary – short art-movie "Shared Spaces" (video art "Noumenon") - idea, script, performance and painting, with the support of Sofia Municipality - competition 2018 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, „The Architect“ project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2017 – White house culture center; – h. Hebros – “Homo Saltans” project, Plovdiv/ Bulgaria 2013 – East-West, Municipal Gallery, retrospective exhibition, Bankya/ Bulgaria 2008 – Maxim gallery, „Monads” project (painting and happening), Sofia/ Bulgaria 2006 – Alte Feuerwache gallery „Cuba Libre – Street Sequences“ project, Göttingen/ BRD 2006 – VERDI Institut, Retrospective, Lage Hörste/ BRD 2005 – BG Culture Institute, Retrospective, Berlin-Mitte/ BRD; 2005 – Gropius museum, „Form follows fiction” project, Alfeld/ BRD 2004 – Laatzen municipality, BRD; – Goethe Institute, „Déjà-vu“ project, Göttingen/ BRD; 2004 – Kuenstlerhaus, „Anthropocentimetries” project, Göttingen/ BRD ’04,‘03 – VERDI Institute , „Geöffnete Türen” project, Berlin Wannsee/ BRD 2003 – Studio Wasserscheune, „Metamorph@sen project, painting and happening with Jazz Musician G. Hampel - Erbsen/ BRD; –Torhaus gallery, Retrospective, Braunschweig/ BRD 2002 – Nikolov gallery, Retrospective, Halle-Saale/ BRD 2001 – Artamonzev gallery, „Polyphonic” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2000 – lokal Arzberger, Expressions – by invitation of Municipality-Vienna/ Austria Group exhibitions 2024 – ONE gallery, Sofia/ BG (contemporary Bulgarian artists) 2023 – gallery of Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA), the charitable cause for the affected areas in Turkey and Syria 2021 – Ari Kupsus Gallery - Budapest / Hungary – Gallery Classica - Sofia / Bulgaria – Sonia Monti gallery , Paris, France, international exhibition contemporary art 20/21 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, Abstract Art Contest (II., III. edition) 2019 – Art Fair West - Norwich/ UK; –Luxart gallery, „La Grande Bellezza" project, Rome, Italy; – [a]cube contemporary gallery, Abstract Art Contest (I. edition); – Gallery Bold, Sofia/ Bg 2018 – Armory artweeks, Stricoff gallery - Chelsea, „The Architect” project, New York/ USA; – Classica gallery-museum, „The woman in art - muse and artist” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2017 – Art Basel, Artbox., „Nomads” project, Switzerland 2016 – Art meets History project, Grimbergen - Brussels/ BE (exhibition in the context of EU master painters) 2014 – V & V gallery, Vivaart gallery, Vienna/ Austria 2012 – Europe gallery, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2010 – Iliya Beshkov Art Gallery, V-th Biennial of Small Forms, Pleven/ Bulgaria ‘09/’08 – modern art gallery Shipka 6, experimental art „Section 13”, object „SOS Golden Trees”, Sofia/ BG 2009 – National Gallery for Foreign Art „10 years of Francophonie“, „Parallel realities” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria 2001 – Musée des Beaux Arts, “Alienation” project, Ottawa/ Canada​ Awards, grants /selected/ for projects: 2021, 2022 - National Culture Fund, BG; 2020/ 21 - Sofia Municipality (art-movie); awards for abstract painting: 2020, 2021 [a] cube contemporary gallery, Sofia/ BG; 2021 - conceptual bearer of trends in fashion and textiles in 2023, «Première Vision», Lyon / France, selected work from the project «Passing and Remaining Landscapes» 2020 - award for mural - "RAL Indoor Murals" project, Philadelphia/ USA; 2005 - "Rolf Broenstrup" Painting Award, Hanover/ BRD; 2003 - painting award, Laatzen, Hanover/ BRD; 2010 - design award, municipality Shabla; 2002 - design award, logo redesign Europalia festival, Belgium, etc. Art commissions /selected/: 2018 - 2020 Sofia City Library; 2001 -2008 Sofia Metropolitan Municipality; 2008 - 2020 Ergo publishing house, book design; from 2019 - art director and overall design concept of HINSA art foundation (international project) National representative in international events: 2021 - XI Symposium Pappenheim Castle/ Hungary; 2008 - Symposium "EUropas Mitte", Fulda/ BRD, 2002 - Symposium of Union of Artists, Wernigerrode/ BRD; 2001 - IV Jeux de la Francophonie, Ottawa/ Canada, etc. Artistic practice: painting, drawing, video art, happening, installation, giclée print, photography, graphic design (book, poster, corporate identity), copywriting, contemporary jewelry objects. Techniques used: acrylic, oil, watercolor, gouache, pastel, mixed media, pencil, lavis, litho, Giclée print. Baramó often involves conceptual texts with the visual part. She is classified as a neo-existentialist painter by prof. PhD Kr. Delchev (see critical study https://www.baramo.art/criticism-the-architect-project). The author has avant-garde quests and is a creator of the visual language "Sediment Process". Publications www.baramo.art /documentary about my creative process – on home/ Some critical studies of exhibitions and art-film in Bulgarian media – translated: https://www.baramo.art/critical-contribution Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@elitsabaramo6616 "Shared Spaces” (video art "Noumenon") - short art-movie, english version Catalog Baramó – painting, 2021 Bulgaria; ISBN: 978-619-92059-0-7 /english and bulgarian language/ Catalog Paintings - 2003, Bulgaria; ISBN 954-91303-1-2 /bulgarian and german language/